Laura Truax, PA
Physician Assistant · Phoenix, AZNPI 1730499609
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 423 payments — averaging $17.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$822
- Novo Nordisk$549
- AbbVie$545
- Medtronic$528
- Abbott$498
- Amgen$390
- plus $4K from 41 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,337100%
- Education$120%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
How this compares
$7,349 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,888 physician assistant providers in Arizona.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 209 | $341,058 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 120 | $183,566 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 105 | $120,282 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 48 | $101,949 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 41 | $76,928 |
| Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/7 | 28 | $41,996 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 33 | $39,149 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 209 | $38,448 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 23 | $37,969 |
| Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide | 44 | $37,695 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 47 | $31,384 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 24 | $30,747 |
| Insulin Lispro Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 69 | $26,017 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 28 | $20,911 |
| Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 43 | $16,138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Novolog | $549 | $343,408221 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro, Humalog, Insulin Lispro | $822 | $234,962216 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $166 | $127,745117 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $15 | $39,14933 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33 | $195 | $37,69544 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $127 | $30,74724 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $545 | $4,36540 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $296 | $2,469255 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,888 physician assistant providers in Arizona.
Other physician assistant in Phoenix
- Alyssa BoschenPhoenix$86K
- Katherine MinorPhoenix$76K
- Micah LasleyPhoenix$52K
- Thomas SirrinePhoenix$37K
- Karla HortonPhoenix$36K
- Larissa AnthonyPhoenix$32K
- Tana FrumentoPhoenix$25K
- Rosemary SrisukPhoenix$17K
- John DorseyPhoenix$17K
- Kendall SmithPhoenix$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.